by Daisy | Aug 14, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
Did you know you could keep the birds and the bees and still have no spots on your apples? Fruit bagging is an age-old practice in Japanese orchards. After the fruit clusters have been thinned, bags are carefully placed around the remaining fruit as soon as they are...
by Daisy | Aug 11, 2016 | Fencepost, Reviews
I just got these from High Mowing Organic Seeds in the mail. I couldn’t resist ordering a few “new” seeds for this fall/winter season instead of hoping the ones in my aging stash were still good. They probably are, mostly, but I was out of kale seeds...
by Daisy | Aug 8, 2016 | Garden, Garden Hacks
I know it’s late in the season for squash, but I just had to give it one last try. My inability to win the squash bug, squash beetle, and, particularly, squash BORER battle is a sore spot with me. This may not work either, but like Charlie Brown and that...
by Daisy | Aug 7, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
I’m very insecure about my fall gardening game. Whenever I’ve had a good fall/winter garden, it’s been largely by accident. Yay! I’m eating spinach in December! How did that happen? The trouble with accidental success is that it’s very...
by Daisy | Aug 5, 2016 | Fencepost, Reviews
I was jealous when I heard about the school system in California that decided to feed it’s students only organic, non-GMO lunches. Happy for them, naturally, but sorry it was such a groundbreaking initiative; this should be on the table, literally, of all school...
